The crisis in Szeged has been lifted, and the train tracks are being urgently repaired, so Ernst naturally will not stay here any longer, just wait for the train to open and leave as soon as it opens.

With the withdrawal of the rebels, Lieutenant General Ragnar began to reorganize his military deployment, borrowing the authority given by Archduke Ferdinand, Lieutenant General Ragnar had to gather more than 5,000 soldiers without reinforcements from Vienna, and more than 8,000 young people were in short-term training, and they would follow to the battlefield in about 3 weeks.

The combat effectiveness of 13,000 soldiers is not to be said for the time being, but if they are placed on the battlefield of Vojvodina, it will undoubtedly play a decisive role, and it is only a matter of time before the Serbian kingdom puts down the rebellion without taking action.

Communication has been completely blocked, and Ernst is not clear about Andrei, but he cannot continue to stay in Szeged, so Andrei can only wait silently.

And just as Ernst was about to leave Szeged, Andrei had calmly reconciled with the previously evacuated Chief of Staff Tiger and his party, and a good news and a bad news were placed in front of Andrei.

The good news is that the city of Bečei has not fallen, and the head here is a deputy chief of the police department, more than 30 policemen and 500 organized youths to maintain order throughout the city.

Bečei is a city in the region of Vojvodina, which was originally part of the Kingdom of Serbia, and the decision-making level here is naturally not a local aristocracy but a mayor appointed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Unfortunately, on the day of the rebellion, Bechey could not avoid it, and unfortunately a mob stormed the conference room, and the mayor, his assistants and other high-ranking officials all died in the conference room.

Speaking of which, the deputy chief of the police station is also a very capable person, and he is decisive in taking over the defense of the city without orders from the top and arranging for the police to detain a batch of military supplies from the railway station to the border.

If it weren't for such a decisive approach, it is estimated that Bechey would have fallen into the hands of the rebels at this time, and the large rebels would not have the energy to pay attention to Bechey for the time being...... 500 armed youths are enough to guarantee security here.

Chief of Staff Tiger came here with more than a thousand soldiers, which obviously made the deputy director very happy, and no matter how capable he was, he could not avoid that he was only a police chief, and the matter of defense really made him too worried.

By the time Andrei arrived, the Moravian Army had taken over the entire city, and the shortfall had been replenished and the number had been increased to 3,500, but the corresponding combat strength had been reduced considerably.

Reorganizing the defenses and training the soldiers, Bechey felt like he was back before the war, but it was only temporary, and soon a message came from the fleeing civilians that a rebel army formed by the former nobles of Vojvodina was approaching the place, and the goal was self-evident.

The rebels numbered about 3,000, and according to the civilians who had fled, most of them were well-armed and did not look like a rabble.

When he got the news, Andrei and Tiger exchanged glances, and it was obvious that this was also a semi-regular army formed by Serbian officers under the guise of rebels.

Why say semi-regular army? Because most of the officers graduated from regular military academies, even if the soldiers were put together temporarily, they also had a hint of the flavor of the regular army after a period of training, and Andrei called such an army a semi-regular army.

In fact, at this time, Vojvodina's semi-regular army was everywhere, and the Kingdom of Serbia sent hundreds of commanding officers to form the current situation in Vojvodina with sparks, and at the same time convince the border guard officers to mess up the entire situation in Vojvodina and at the same time allow the Kingdom of Serbia to regain it at any time.

There are two main reasons why the Kingdom of Serbia has not yet moved: whether the Russian Empire will wholeheartedly support them, whether it will be able to recover Vojvodina in a short time and negotiate with Austria-Hungary.

Without the sudden arrival of the Moravian Army Regiment, perhaps everything would have gone according to the plans of the Kingdom of Serbia, although in the future they would have suffered stronger retaliation from Austria-Hungary, but at least they would have recovered Vojvodina, but now ......

"You can fight!"

These are Andre's words, if it is only 3000 semi-regular troops, then he is not afraid, but Tiger also has his own ideas, that is, what if he wins the victory.

"Needless to say, the result of the defeat is that Bechey has fallen, we have been killed or taken prisoner, but where should we go to repel this rebel army?"

Once this large-scale rebel army is defeated, then they will inevitably become the target of public criticism, and Bechey will naturally not be able to defend it, but where can they go if they are not here? Returning to the territory of Austria-Hungary is also unrealistic, too far away and there are too many variables on the way.

Tiger's words silenced Andre as well, but both of them ignored the question of whether they wanted to leave the young men they had just recruited, after all, this was their home.

Bechey's war was on the verge of breaking out, and by this time Ernst had already boarded the train to Vienna, but Ernst would not stop in Vienna for too long, but would visit the Grand Duchess of Sophia and go straight back to Moravia.

At this time, it was February 1902, and the East was about to start the most lively Spring Festival of the year, but it is estimated that this year's Manchu royal family was not in such a good mood to celebrate.

The Manchu imperial family's announcement on February 1, 1902, of a policy that would allow the Manchu Empire to fall into the abyss—allowing Manchu-Han intermarriage—was undoubtedly a compromise, the beginning of a loss of control over the empire.

In addition to this policy, the formation of a new army, the promotion of officials and businessmen to establish industrial and commercial enterprises, the abolition of the imperial examination, the establishment of schools, and the sending of students to study abroad also seem to be the policy of rejuvenating the country, but at the same time, it was also a prelude to the demise of the Manchu Empire.

The affairs of the East seem to have nothing to do with Austria-Hungary, but they are not! Why did the Russian Empire suddenly increase its support for the Kingdom of Serbia? It was nothing more than that the eastern front was prevented from advancing because of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, and once there was a spare opportunity, how could a single Serbian kingdom be an opponent of Austria-Hungary?

On 9 February, Lieutenant Colonel Andrei, deputy commander of the Austro-Hungarian Moravian Army, and 3,565 soldiers held Bechey and routed the rebels that day, with more than 600 rebels suffering casualties and more than 1,000 rebels captured.

Andrei had intended to defeat the rebels and move elsewhere, but because of the strong protest of the interim head of Bechey's government, he had to stay behind in Bechey.

By this time, Ernst had returned to Moravia, and the news of Andre had reached Ernst's ears with that victory, and Ernst was relieved to learn that the Moravian Army Regiment was fine.

The Austro-Hungarian leadership, including Ernst, already knew that such a stalemate would not last long, because the Russian government had already begun to negotiate with the Manchu Empire about the three eastern provinces, and if this matter was concluded, Russia would definitely withdraw its troops, and that would be the moment when the Vojvodina rebels were over.